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My ds1 has just started reception and has been coming home with some of his school books. He is a bright kid so I just thought they were for parents to see what he has been up to at school. Neither myself not DH had been working on it with him (but we do lots of reading - fact and fiction)as we thought it was the school's role to teach him to read and write.
Now, we are being told that he is "falling behind" on his sounds and blending. I know he is a bright kid so I am assuming we are the only parents that are not doing formalised "homework" with him. I obviously feel bad about this and have started doing so now....but deep down I do not think it's right to have these sorts of pressures on a 4 year old when there is a whole lifetime of hard work ahead of him! Of course I would like my children to be a success in life but I can't remember having homework until I started secondary school ( but still did well at achool)
Or am I just being unreasonable ( or lazy)?
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to think that a 4 year old shouldn't gave to do homeowrk?
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amijee · 22/11/2010 16:14
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